PHP stands for Hypertext Preprocessor and it is a server-side programming language.

There are many reasons to use PHP for server side programming, firstly it is a open source server side scripting language with no licensing fees so the cost of using it is minimal.

A good benefit of using PHP is that, it can interact with many different database languages including MySQL.PHP and MySQL are compatible with an Apache server which is also free to license. PHP can also run most of the operation systems like Windows, Linux and Unix servers.

Due to all these languages being free it is cheap and easy to setup and create a website using PHP.

PHP also has very good online documentation with a good framework of functions in place. It makes the language relatively easy to learn and very well supported online. There are countless forums and tutorials on various PHP methods and problems so it is usually very easy to find help if you need it.

Due to PHP being so accessible and cheap to setup there are a lot of professionals who know how to use the PHP language which makes finding new employees proficient in this language less challenging.

PHP can do a lot that JavaScript cannot do. Image resizing, saving files on the server, database queries, e-mailing, PDF generation, secure login systems, RSS parsing, SOAP calls to web services, anything where you cannot trust the client (because the user can change JS code as they want, and there’s no way for you to control that).

PHP is a very easy to get started with than you might think. By learning just a few simple functions, you are able to do a lot of things with your website. Once you know the basics, check out the lot of scripts available on the internet that you only need to tweak slightly to fit your needs.

PHP is best suitable language to build the dynamic web applications. And not to mention it is very easy to deploy and is supported by nearly every web host.